Experts
Noam Chomsky
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Recent Activity
Chomsky podcast from 2008 June's Release from the Archive: Phil Gasper, Noam Chomsky and George Carlin. Seeing Red Radio. August 7, 2008. "We've reached back in the vaults to one of the best shows of 2008, with a podcast featuring Professor Phil Gasper on the ABC's of Marxism. We also include commentary from Noam Chomsky, comedic truth-telling from the late George Carlin, all mixed with the music of Ani Difranco, Utah Philips, the Weavers, Amon Tobin, David Rovics, DJ Spooky, HiM, and more."
August 4, 2009, 11:52 PM
New piece "On Chomsky": Where To Now For Jewish America?. By Antony Loewenstein. January 24, 2009.
August 2, 2009, 1:16 PM
Text of Chomsky talk on UN General Assembly panel
Text of Chomsky talk on UN General Assembly panel The Responsibility to Protect. UN General Assembly, New York City. July 23, 2009.
August 1, 2009, 2:19 PM
Chomsky on panel at UN General Assembly
Chomsky on panel at UN General Assembly Interactive Dialogue on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Doctrine. United Nations General Assembly. July 23, 2009. And a summary of the speakers' comments: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2009/ga10847.doc.htm
July 28, 2009, 9:31 AM
Recent Chomsky interview Transcript: Interview with US political activist and philosopher Noam Chomsky. With Michael Dranove. March 13, 2009. And videos: Interview with US political activist and philosopher Noam Chomsky. Wikinews. March 13, 2009.
July 26, 2009, 11:50 PM
Noam Avram Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1928. He attended the University of Pennsylvania where he studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy. In 1955, he received his Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania, however, most of the research leading to this degree was done at Harvard between 1951 and 1955. Since receiving his Ph. D., Chomsky has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he now holds the Ferrari P. Ward Chair of Modern Language and Linguistics.
Among his many accomplishments, he is most famous for his work on generative grammar, which developed from his interest in modern logic and mathematical foundations. As a result, he applied it to the description of natural languages.
His political tendencies toward socialism and anarchism are a result of what he calls "the radical Jewish community in New York." Since 1965 he has become one of the leading critics of U.S. foreign policy. He published a book of essays called American Power and the New Mandarins which is considered to be one of the most substantial arguments ever against American involvement in Vietnam.
